Friday, January 18, 2008

Tennis News -
At Australian Open 2008,

MXD -
[R1] Agnes Szavay (HUN)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Renata Voracova (CZE)/ David Skoch (CZE) 26 62 10(6)

Womens Doubles -
[R2] (6) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Alicia Molik (AUS) vs Nadia Petrova (RUS)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) 63 57 1-1

Junior Boys -
[Q1] TIWARI Abhijeet (IND,180) l (3) GARFORTH-BLES Sam (CAN,89) 36 46
[Q1] (6) SINGH Karunuday (IND,103) bt (WC) BROOKMAN Blake (AUS,582) 62 60

[Q2] (6) SINGH Karunuday (IND,103) bt EAMES Jake (AUS,367) 26 62 75

Junior Girls -
[Q1] (7) GUNUGANTI Janaki (IND,183) bt STUCKEY Vicky (AUS,533) 63 76(2)
[Q1] (8) DAYAL Sonya (IND,191) l PATTERSON, Tammi (AUS,390) 16 26

[Q2] (7) GUNUGANTI Janaki (IND,183) vs (11) CUTHBERTSON Janelle (AUS,212)

Karunuday qualified for maindraw of Junior Boys section at AO ... So after longtime we r seeing our two boys r in the maindraw.

Sania's doubles match suspended due to poor light, now remaining match will be finished tomorrow as Sania and Alicia having 2 break points in 3rd game on Russians service, 15-40.

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At $10k USA F2, North Miami Beach, Florida, USA

[SF] INBAR Amit (ISR)/ ROY Rupesh (IND) bt (3) KUMANTSOV Andrey (RUS)/ YOO Daniel (KOR) 76(0) 3-2 Retd.

[F] INBAR Amit (ISR)/ ROY Rupesh (IND) vs LAM Chris (USA)/ WETTENGEL Chris (USA)
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Hockey News -
At 8 Nations Invitational Tournament, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

India bt South Korea 6-1

Goal Scored - Diwakar Ram (IND) (PC) 9', 55' & 63', Sanwar Ali (IND) 33', Gurwinder Singh (IND) 51', Pramod Kumar (IND) 64' and Lim Woo-geun (KOR) 69'

Other matches-
Australia bt Malaysia 5-2
Holland bt New Zealand 9-1
Germany bt Pakistan 5-1
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Chess News -
At Corus 2008, 11-27 January 2008

Round 5 - Thursday the 17th (grandmaster group B event)
S. Movsesian - P. Harikrishna ½-½
H. Koneru - G. Sargissian ½-½

In grandmaster group B event, Hari playing with black and Humpy playing with white managed to draw their respective matches against higher rating opponents ... Hari is currently 2nd position with 3½ pts, mere ½ pts behind leader French GM Etienne Bacrot .. And Humpy on 13th position with 1½ pts.

In grandmaster group C event, Parimarjan Negi won his 5th round match against Ukranian WGM Anna Ushenina ... So this was consecutive 3rd win for Negi after losing first 2 games ... Now he is tied for 4th position with 3 pts.

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Golf News -
At Abu Dhabi Golf Championship, UAE - Second Round (EPGA Tour)

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T77 SINGH Jeev Milkha 76 71 + 3
T100 RANDHAWA Jyoti 75 75 + 6
T106 KAPUR Shiv 74 77 + 7

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